文档介绍：Chess Training Pocket Book
300 Most Important
Positions and Ideas

Grandmaster Lev Alburt
Second, Revised Edition
eBook edition published by

Originally published by Chess Information and Research Center
. Box 534
Gracie Station
New York, NY 10028

Distribution to the book trade in North America by:
. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Editing Services: OutExcel! Corp., Al Lawrence, President
Technical Editor: Mark Ishee
Proofreaders: Peter Kurzdorfer, Virginia Roberson
Photos: Nigel Eddis; on the cover Olga Zoueva and GM Lev Alburt

© Copyright 1997, 2000. Lev Alburt. All rights reserved.

eISBN 1-59062-170-0

This book is also available in print as ISBN 1-889323-14-4.
Contents

Foreword
Chapter One:
Making the Most Out of this Book
Chapter Two:
The 300 Most Important Chess Positions
Index of Games
Index of Themes
Foreword
You want an approach to learning that gives you the maximum results in
the minimum amount of time. The idea of the Chess Training Pocket
Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas is just that simple. When
you study any one of these positions, you can be sure that you are
acquiring an important, practical piece of chess knowledge. Indeed, the
major portion of all practical chess knowledge is represented in this little
book of 188 pages. It’s a small book, but its construction has taken me a
lifetime!
I’ve devoted my teaching life to getting the quickest possible results for
my students. Each position here is distilled from thousands I’ve shown to
aspiring players both in Russia and the . over the decades. Each
diagram holds something special and important for you.
Not surprisingly, this most time-efficient approach is also the approach
that leads my students to both the deepest understanding and the most
enjoyment of chess. Wasting time has nothing to mend itself!
This is a pocket book —a vade mec